Jesus Cleansing Us White As Snow
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 445 helpful votes “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Psalm 51:7 ESV / 314 helpful votes Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 203 helpful votes But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 193 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:14 ESV / 129 helpful votes The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Revelation 1:5 ESV / 122 helpful votes And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Daniel 7:9 ESV / 122 helpful votes “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.
Lamentations 4:7 ESV / 116 helpful votes Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
Matthew 28:3 ESV / 109 helpful votes His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
Numbers 12:10 ESV / 108 helpful votes When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 95 helpful votes Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Mark 9:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes And his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.
Exodus 4:6 ESV / 91 helpful votes Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 85 helpful votes How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
2 Kings 5:27 ESV / 85 helpful votes Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.
Job 9:30 ESV / 84 helpful votes If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Psalm 147:16 ESV / 81 helpful votes He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
Proverbs 31:21 ESV / 80 helpful votes She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
Isaiah 55:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 77 helpful votes The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Job 37:6 ESV / 77 helpful votes For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
Proverbs 25:13 ESV / 73 helpful votes Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Psalm 68:14 ESV / 68 helpful votes When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon.
Ezekiel 36:25 ESV / 67 helpful votes I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Exodus 12:22 ESV / 67 helpful votes Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
John 1:29 ESV / 66 helpful votes The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Titus 3:5 ESV / 65 helpful votes He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 64 helpful votes Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Psalm 51:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 61 helpful votes Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
Revelation 7:14 ESV / 60 helpful votes I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 59 helpful votes To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …
Job 38:22 ESV / 58 helpful votes “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job 24:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Psalm 148:8 ESV / 57 helpful votes Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
John 3:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 54 helpful votes That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Zechariah 13:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.
Jeremiah 18:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?
2 Samuel 23:20 ESV / 50 helpful votes And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
Hebrews 9:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Proverbs 26:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Numbers 19:1-22 ESV / 48 helpful votes Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come. And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned. …
Acts 3:19 ESV / 47 helpful votes Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
Leviticus 14:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.
Revelation 7:13-14 ESV / 46 helpful votes Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Job 6:16 ESV / 46 helpful votes Which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.
Psalm 103:12 ESV / 45 helpful votes As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
1 Chronicles 11:22 ESV / 44 helpful votes And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
Hebrews 9:13-14 ESV / 42 helpful votes For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Numbers 19:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 40 helpful votes The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Matthew 26:28 ESV / 38 helpful votes For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Leviticus 14:4-7 ESV / 38 helpful votes The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Revelation 19:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Leviticus 14:1-57 ESV / 32 helpful votes The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. …
Exodus 12:1-51 ESV / 32 helpful votes The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, …
Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 31 helpful votes He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Romans 5:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Hebrews 13:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 29 helpful votes The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 29 helpful votes “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 28 helpful votes Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Revelation 5:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
1 John 2:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Hebrews 10:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
James 4:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Ephesians 5:26-27 ESV / 24 helpful votes That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 24 helpful votes Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 23 helpful votes Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Revelation 7:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
1 John 1:1-10 ESV / 22 helpful votes That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. …
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 22 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 2:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 3:24-25 ESV / 20 helpful votes And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 17 helpful votes In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Luke 22:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.